Looking Towards 2026 Grand Prix Entries

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

MEN
GROUP 1- Ilia Malinin, Yuma Kagiyama, Shun Sato, Mikhail Shaidorov, Daniel Grassl, Adam Siao Him Fa
GROUP 2- Junhwan Cha, Stephen Gogolev, Kao Miura, Nika Egadze, Sota Yamamoto, Kazuki Tomono
GROUP 3- Rio Nakata, Nikolaj Memola, Kevin Aymoz, Andrew Torgashev, Boyang Jin, Aleksandr Selevko
GROUP 4- Matteo Rizzo, Minkyu Seo, Lukas Britschgi, Roman Sadovsky, Vladimir Samoilov, Jacob Sanchez
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This group has potential to fall into no spots/alternate territory...

GROUP 5- Georgii Reshtenko, Yudong Chen, Francois Pitot, Mihhail Selevko, Vladimir Litvintsev, Andreas Nordeback, Tamir Kuperman, Adam Hagara

WOMEN
GROUP 1 - Ami Nakai, Alysa Liu, Mao Shimada, Mone Chiba, Yuna Aoki, Niina Petrokina
GROUP 2- Rion Sumiyoshi, Amber Glenn, Isabeau Levito, Rinka Watanabe, Haein Lee, Anastasiia Gubanova
GROUP 3- Jia Shin, Sofia Samodelkina, Loena Hendrickx, Lara Naki Gutmann, Nina Pinzarrone, Sarah Everhardt
GROUP 4- Yujae Kim, Young You, Yuseong Kim, Saki Miyake, Olivia Lisko, Rino Matsuike
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Group 5- could be in alternate territory...
Anna Pezzetta, Iida Karhunen, Julia Sauter, Sophie Joline Von Felten, Seoyoung Kim, Lorine Schild, Madeline Schizas, Chaeyeon Kim

If Amber continues, which I doubt, group 2?

 

[haribobo]

These are just by current SB but she has a good chance of top 6 at worlds and thus a seeded position

 

[haribobo]

FYI for Japan men, Sena Takahashi will be too young for seniors and Tsuboi is retiring.

Of the others in contention for NHK spot...(most don't have an ISU SB)

Daiya Ebihara- 7th @ Nats, 217 int (has SB)
Nozomu Yoshioka - 8th @ Nationals, 214 international score
Takeru Kataise- 9th @ Nats, 216 int
Kosho Oshima- 10th @ Nats, 195 int
Tsudoi Sato- 12th @ Nats, 206 int
Shunsuke Nakamura- 19th @ Nationals, 210 int score

With Yuma, Shun, Tomono, Sota, Rio and Kao getting 2 spots each
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Also for the women (Yuna Aoki and Rinka Watanabe should have 2 spots)...Rino Matsuike - 11 @ Nats, and Rion Sumiyoshi - 18 @ Nats, should get 2, also Saki Miyake- 9 @ Nats should get 2 spots if recovered from injury
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Mana Kawabe- 12 @ Nats, 194 int (no SB)
Maria Egawa- 13 @ Nats, 197 int (no SB)
Mako Yamashita- 15 @ Nats, 195 int (SB 183)
Kaoruko Wada- 19 @ Nats (SB 180)
Haruna Murakami- 21 @ Nats (SB 186)
Hana Yoshida- 28 @ Nats (SB 180)

If all of Mone, Mao, Ami, Yuna, Rinka, Rino, Rion, Saki, get 2 spots each- that only leaves 2 total GP spots to spread amongst all of the above skaters.

 

[Karen-W]

Alrighty then... We can start projecting for Pairs seeing as there are no further pairs competitions this season!

Seeded/Invited - Guaranteed 2 GPs - 20 out of 48 spots
Hase/Volodin
Metelkina/Berulava
Pereira/Michaud
Nagaoka/Moriguchi
Pavlova/Sviatchenko
Efimova/Mitrofanov
Hocke/Kunkel
Akopova/Rakhmanin
Zhang/Huang
Vouillamoz/Bouvart

WS Top 24 (projected) & SB Top 24 - I've tentatively marked through the teams expected to retire/split - guaranteed 1 GP but probably will get 2 - 8 out of 28 remaining spots
Miura/Kihara 1/1
Conti/Macii 4/4
Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps 6/7
Kam/O'Shea 7/12
Ghilardi/Ambrosini 9/16
Chan/Howe 12/11
McBeath/Parkman 13/19
Laurin/Ethier 16/18
Chtchetinina/Wozniak 17/20
Shin/Nagy 20/15
Sui/Han 24/9

JWC Top 3/WS Top 24/SB Top 24 - guaranteed 1 GP but will probably get 2 - 2 out of 20 remaining spots
Kemp/Elizarov 1/23/24

JWC Top 3/WS Top 24/SB Top 75 - guaranteed 1 GP but will probably get 2 - 2 out of 18 remaining spots
Desrochers/Thrasher 2/21/35

SB Top 24 - guaranteed 1 GP but will probably get 2 - 2 out of 16 remaining spots
Plazas/Fernandez 22
Beccari/Guarise 23

WS Top 24 - guaranteed 1 GP, could get 2 - 3 out of 14 remaining spots
Vaipan-Law/Digby 15 (SB 25) - probably will get 2
Danilova/Tsiba 22 (SB 38) - probably will get 1

JWC Top 3/SB Top 75 - included in Selection Pool - 1 out of 11 remaining spots
Herrera/Khobta - probably will get 1

Host Spots - 5 out of 10 remaining spots
SkAm - 2 TBD
SCI - probably none held unless there are some pairs teams that form soon that show promise
CoC - none
GPdF - 3 TBD
NHK - none
Finlandia - none

SB Top 75 - included in Selection Pool (minimum total score = 136.99 - only Top 51 have achieved that score) - marked through the age-ineligible teams from the junior ranks as well as teams likely to remain junior next season - 3 to GP host fed teams out of 5 remaining
Kovalev/Kovalev 26 - will get 1 GP outside of GPdF
Guo/Zhang 27
Faula/Belle 28 - will get 1 GP outside of GPdF
Zhang/Feng 29
Izzo/Maierhofer 30
Valesi/Bidar 31
Holichenko/Darenskyi 32
Liu/Bedard 33 - will get 1 GP outside of GPdF
Caldara/Maglio 34
Gunnarsdottir/Piazza 36
Flores/Wang 37
Williams/Lewer 40
Ryom/Han 41
Chen/Dong 42
Schaller/Mayr 43
Wessenberg/Strekalin 44
Roscher/Schuster 45
Quattrochi/Lacasse 46
Jarmoc/Witkowski 47
Moss/Galbavy 48
Ehrhard/Pellegris 49
Gamez/Korovin 50
Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore 51

Best guess - Izzo/Maierhofer and Valesi/Bidar will get 1 GP each but the host feds can pick whomever they want from the Selection Pool - their chances improve if some of the teams guaranteed 2 or 1 GP wind up retiring/splitting, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens!